In PHP is it possible to inspect content of a Zip file without extracting its content first?

Question

I have seen the ZipArchive class in PHP which lets you read zip files. But I\'m wondering if there is a way to iterate though its content without extracting the file first

Answer 1

I solved the problem like this.

$zip = new \ZipArchive();

$zip->open(storage_path('app/'.$request->vrfile));

$name = '';

//looped through the zip files and got each index name of the files
//since I only wanted the first name which is the folder name I break the loop 
//after updating the variable $name with the index name and that's it

    for( $i = 0; $i < $zip->numFiles; $i++ ){
        $filename = $zip->getNameIndex($i);
        var_dump($filename);
        $name =     $filename;
        if ($i == 1){
            break;
        }
    }

    var_dump($name);